Benyamin is an Indian writer and novelist who lives in Bahrain. Joseph Koyippally is associate professor in comparative literature at the Central University of Kerala, India.
“Very seldom in life does a book like Goat Days come along and ruin
you for other books. It becomes like that mythic true love you once
felt for someone when you were still innocent—but now that you have
lived through it, you no longer are that innocent person. . . . The
same feeling courses through you after you read books like
Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, Bach’s Jonathan Livingston
Seagull, and Orwell’s Animal Farm. Perfectly pitched books, with
the language kept out of the way of storytelling.”
*Dawn*
“An unusual worker’s-tale from the Gulf States where, instead of
(technological) modernity, building and consumer frenzies, and
oil-related activity one is confronted almost only with the most
desolate of rural locales, Goat Days is an interesting slice of
Saudi life—but one that also reaches far beyond its specifics, much
of the novel’s strength coming from how universal the tale is.”
*Complete Review*
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